| Paul Montel | |
| Birth Name: | Paul Antoine Aristide Montel |
| Birth Date: | 29 April 1876 |
| Birth Place: | Nice, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Paris-Sorbonne University École Normale Supérieure |
| Alma Mater: | Sorbonne |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Émile Borel |
| Doctoral Students: | Mieczysław Biernacki Henri Cartan Jean Dieudonné Lucien Hibbert Miron Nicolescu |
| Known For: | Montel's theorem Montel space Normal family |
Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (29 April 1876 – 22 January 1975) was a French mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis.
Montel was a student of Émile Borel at the Sorbonne. Henri Cartan, Jean Dieudonné and Miron Nicolescu were among his students.
Montel's most important contribution to mathematics was the introduction and systematicdevelopment of thenotion of normal family.[1] This very influential book also contains the first exposition in the book form of the results of Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia onholomorphic dynamics. The notion of normal family was a predecessor of the notion of compact space introduced by Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn in 1929.[2]